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Commonwealth to pay $2M to remote Indigenous community in ‘remarkable’ class action settlement
Australian Government Solicitor 2021-12-13 3:34 pm By Bianca Hrovat

The federal government will pay $2 million to settle a human rights class action brought by Indigenous Australians from the Ngaanyatjarraku community in Western Australia over allegedly discriminatory requirements for access to social security benefits.

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Conga Foods appeals loss in La Famiglia trade mark dispute
Clayton Utz 2021-04-14 2:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

Pasta distributor Conga Foods is challenging a ruling that dashed its bid to register its ‘La Famiglia Rana’ trade mark in Australia.

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Sydney Opera House says China trade group copied trade mark in bad faith
Addisons 2021-04-14 1:00 pm By Miklos Bolza

A trade mark application by a China Australia trade association contains an “identical copy” of the Sydney Opera House’s sail design, the trust behind the iconic landmark has claimed as it seeks revocation of the mark on the grounds of bad faith.

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Goodman Fielder wins ‘La Famiglia’ trade mark dispute
Clayton Utz 2021-02-08 2:58 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen

Australasian food company Goodman Fielder has successfully challenged a bid by Conga Foods and an Italian pasta producer to register the ‘La Famiglia’ trade mark for pasta products.

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Cryptocurrency maker Ripple reaches settlement in PayID trade mark dispute
Clayton Utz 2020-12-23 1:54 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen

US cryptocurrency maker Ripple Labs has reached a settlement with the company behind the PayID mobile banking system, ending months of litigation in their trade mark spat.

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Sydney Opera House fights China group’s trade mark
Appeals 2020-12-04 12:45 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Sydney Opera House is challenging a ruling that denied its opposition to a trade mark application filed by a China-Australia trade association that featured an image of the opera house sails together with the Great Wall of China.

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Ripple Labs denies PayID is deceptively similar to trade mark of Aussie mobile banking system
Clayton Utz 2020-10-26 12:15 pm By Christine Caulfield

US cryptocurrency maker Ripple Labs has hit back at an intellectual property lawsuit brought by the Australian company behind the ubiquitous PayID mobile banking system, saying its PayID trade mark is neither substantially identical nor deceptively similar to the Aussie mark.

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Ripple blocked from advertising to Australians in PayID trade mark dispute
Clayton Utz 2020-08-28 12:01 pm By Miklos Bolza

A court has issued an order restraining US blockchain company Ripple Labs from advertising its PayID system to Aussies, two days after the company agreed to geoblock its website within Australia.

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Ripple Labs to rebrand in face of PayID trade mark lawsuit
Clayton Utz 2020-08-26 4:40 pm By Miklos Bolza

US blockchain technology firm Ripple Labs has said that it will rebrand and block access to allegedly infringing websites as it seeks to rapidly resolve an intellectual property dispute launched over the PayID trade mark.

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Owner of PayID trade mark sues cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs
Clayton Utz 2020-08-25 6:21 pm By Miklos Bolza

The company behind the ubiquitous mobile banking PayID system has filed Federal Court trade mark proceedings against a US blockchain technology firm over its global real-time payment service.

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